Jonny Greenwood soundtracks clip for new Joaquin Phoenix film You Were Never Really Here — watch

Earlier this month, news broke that Radiohead guitarist and experienced film composer Jonny Greenwood would be scoring Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here, an upcoming drama starring Joaquin Phoenix. In conjunction with the feature movie’s screening at Cannes Film Festival this week, a clip from the film has been released and it features some of the original music composed by Greenwood.

In the clip, Phoenix takes cues from Taken-era Liam Neeson as he plays a war veteran whose “attempt to save a young girl from a sex trafficking ring goes horribly wrong.” The action begins when Phoenix’s hood-clad character exits a building as alarms ring in the background. After walking into a dark alleyway, he effortlessly takes out a would-be attacker. From there, he nonchalantly hops into a taxi cab and asks to be taken to the airport.

Greenwood’s score kicks off the clip as the camera pans from inside the building out to the alleyway, building tension with sparse percussion and a catchy guitar loop. The background music fades away during the fight scene, only to pick back up with a more exciting, synth-heavy instrumental as Phoenix prepares to enter the cab.